Agricultural sector pilots one-stop-shop customs mechanism

VGP – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will pilot the national one-stop-shop (OSS) customs mechanism in seven to ten administrative procedures in its seven export areas.

August 12, 2013 5:26 PM GMT+7

Seven units that will run the OSS customs mechanism on a trial basis include the Directorate of Fisheries, the General Department of Forestry, the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry, the Department of Animal Health, the Plant Protection Department, the Department of Cultivation, the Department of Husbandry and the National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department.

As scheduled, the pilot roadmap would be completed in July 2014.

The Ministry asked the participating units to review, select and standardize administrative procedures and make adequate preparations for the trial run.

The units are required to jointly study an information infrastructure for the pilot project.

Earlier, the PM released Decision 48/2011/QD-TTg in August 2011 on piloting the implementation of the national OSS customs mechanism in Viet Nam with three different phases.

In the second phase (January-December 2013), the OSS customs mechanism is piloted at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transport.

The third phase (January-December 2014) will cover the Ministry of Healthcare, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

By Kim Anh